124 Part One: Texts and Contexts
anacreontics, on the contrary, are written line by line, the musical mode is not
recorded (with the exception of AB 24) and the names of the authors are
mentioned in the titles attached to the poems. Whereas the index duly records
the names of the authors of the anacreontics, it does not mention the authors
of the alphabets by name, but rather niggardly introduces the second part as
follows: älóabht1ria ×tera diaóörzn poiht0n, without telling us who these
“various poets” are. That is a great pity, for almost all the poems of the second
part have been lost, with the exception of AB 134–135 (by Christopher Prota-
sekretis), AB 136–137 (by Photios) and AB 138 (anonymous)^136.
The first part of the Anthologia Barberina can be divided into five heteroge-
neous sections:
(a) the Palestinian school AB 1–22 Sophronios Patriarch of Je-
rusalem
AB 23 Sophronios Iatrosophistes
AB24–25 Elias Synkellos of Jerusalem
AB 26 Michael Synkellos of Jerusa-
lem
(b) Constantinopolitan poets AB 27 Ignatios the Deacon
AB28–32 Arethas of Caesarea
AB33–38 Leo Choirosphaktes
AB 39 Ps. Leo Choirosphaktes
(c) sixth-century grammarians AB40–46 John of Gaza
AB47–57 George the Grammarian(d) ninth-century grammarians AB58–59 Leo the Philosopher
AB 60 Sergios the Grammarian
AB 61 Leontios the Grammarian
AB62–63 Constantine the Grammarian
AB 64 Theophanes the Grammarian
(e) Anacreon AB65–80
In its present state the manuscript preserves only the following anacreontics: AB 1–13;
the beginning of 14; the end of 16; 17–27; the end of 35; 36–45; the end of 49; 50–57. The
following anacreontics can be found in other manuscripts: AB 14, 27, 52, 62–63 and 65–80.
The second part of the Anthologia Barberina contains various hymns: pen-
itential (nos. 93–123 and 146–154), on biblical and religious subjects (nos. 81–
87, 89–92 and 126–132), and ceremonial (nos. 88, 124–125, 133–145 and 155)^137.
(^136) Christopher Protasekretis: ed. CICCOLELLA 2000b: 72–77; Photios and the anonymous
poem AB 138: ed. CICCOLELLA 1998: 308–315.
(^137) AB 156–157 mention only the heirmos, not the subject. AB 158–160 are entitled nekrwsimon.